Even before the original has hit theaters, a sequel to Pokemon: Detective Pikachu is in the works, and a writer has been hired.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Legendary is working on a sequel to Detective Pikachu, and Oren Uziel has been tapped to write the script. Uziel’s work includes 22 Jump Street, The Cloverfield Paradox, as well as the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog and Men in Black International films.
Before you get your hands on Kingdom Hearts 3 — currently available in Japan and available in other territories beginning on January 29 — players intending to stream the long-awaited sequel.
Kingdom Hearts 3’s title menu includes a warning notice before you stream. A pop-up window then appears, detailing that streaming of the game is intended for non-commercial use, and that streaming with the explicit intention of sharing the music of KH3 is expressly prohibited. The full statement, as confirmed by IGN, reads:
“This game is a copyrighted work. The copyright is held by The Walt Disney Company and a collaboration of authors representing The Walt Disney Company. Additionally, the copyright of certain characters is held by Square Enix Co. Ltd.
Slay the Spire is one of those games where I found myself sitting alone at my desk just giggling as I played. Not because it’s exceptionally funny – though its well-written encounters can be that – but because some combo of cards that had chanced its way into my hand would just go off, and the result was an absolute thrill. I couldn’t help but laugh because, win or lose, that combo may never show up again. But boy, was it a blast in the moment.
Here’s a genre mix you probably haven’t seen before: Slay the Spire is a deckbuilding roguelike dungeon crawler. Don’t mistake it for a deckbuilding game like Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering; instead, you pick one of three varied but equally exciting characters with unique card pools and start with a super basic deck. As you work your way up the Spire, you’ll fight increasingly difficult monsters to acquire a randomized selection of new cards that slowly build your deck into something better.
By the time Leon and Claire reach Raccoon City at the start of Resident Evil 2, the small Midwestern town is already overrun with zombies.
If you’re jumping into the series for the first time with the Resident Evil 2 remake, you might be wondering how things got to this point. Resident Evil 2 is still an acceptable place to jump into the series – featuring a new cast separate from the first game and introducing several key figures for the first time – but if you’re looking to really dig into the story of the series without playing any of the remake’s chronological predecessors (Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero specifically), then we’ve got you covered.
Follow along for a quick (and very, very condensed) synopsis of the Resident Evil story up to the Resident Evil 2 remake.
Even in Hobbs & Shaw, the Fast & Furious spin-off starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham, the word “family” seems to be what matters most. As he tends to do, Johnson has been documenting the process of filming the movie on Instagram and used the social media tool to reveal some news that should be exciting to WWE fans.
The actor’s real-life cousin, WWE superstar Roman Reigns, has been cast to play his brother in the movie. “Good times droppin’ sweat and spillin’ blood with my family, Roman Reigns who’ll be playing my brother in our [Fast & Furious universe],” Johnson wrote. “I’m very proud of his focus, effort and authentic performance in our movie for his very first time on film. I’m also very grateful to spend this quality time with my cousin here in the islands as he takes life one day at a time to recover from leukemia.”
Reigns revealed back in October that he was stepping away from WWE to battle leukemia for the second time in his life. “My real name is Joe, and I’ve been living with leukemia for 11 years,” he said while relinquishing the WWE Universal Championship. “And unfortunately, it’s back. And because the leukemia is back, I cannot fulfill my that role. I can’t be that fighting champion. And I’m going to have to relinquish the Universal Championship.”
While there is no announced timetable for a possible return, he’s clearly keeping busy with some exciting scenes in Hobbs and Shaw, while he also undergoes treatment. The photos posted by Johnson show the two celebrating their heritage by wearing Samoan garb while unleashing some serious brutality on those around them.
Still, even Johnson is anxious for the day Reigns is able to return to WWE. “Can’t wait to see the ‘Big Dog’ return back to the ring–his positive & focused mindset to return is straight up next level,” the actor wrote.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is in theaters on August 2. And for all of your WWE needs, make sure to check out our Royal Rumble coverage, from predictions for every match to everyone set to participate in the massive battle royales.
Wargroove looks to be an homage to classic tactics games like Advance Wars, with the added twist of an online multiplayer element. Developer Chucklefish announced that you can play against your friends cross-platform, but one console is conspicuously missing from the line-up.
In a tweet, the studio said you can play across PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One, and an accompanying short video clip shows the cross-play functionality. Notably absent is PlayStation 4, which is also receiving the game alongside the others on February 1.
This is a familiar sight. Sony has counted itself out from cross-play for a long time, only recently reversing course for the mega-hit Fortnite. Even then it was only after Microsoft and Nintendo made a point of teasing Sony about it together. Still, this was posed as a beta to test the functionality, and Sony is still only planning to allow other games on a case-by-case basis. Rocket League, long requested for cross-play, just recently became the second game to use the functionality.
Sometimes your friends aren’t in the same faction as you, and that’s okay!
No need to start a war, keep your band together with multiplayer cross-platform play on PC, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One, when Wargroove launches on February 1st! pic.twitter.com/Z6svC6MyL7
Given all that, it’s unsurprising that Wargroove isn’t included, but Chucklefish is still not-too-subtly pointing it out. Though it’s targeting several platforms for simultaneous release, it was given a prime spot on Nintendo’s “Nindies” presentation earlier this week, where the release date of February 1 was announced.
The VIP demo for Anthem is now officially live, but unfortunately it hasn’t been a very smooth launch. Players have already seen messages that servers are full or been stuck on the title screen with extensive loading times, while others have been kicked out of the demo entirely with Origin momentarily going down.
“We’re adding more server capacity to the [Anthem] demo right now. Hang tight while we work to get everyone into the game,” EA Help tweeted out this morning. That tweet was followed with another, this time addressing the long loading times, about an hour later. “We’re looking into the infinite loading issue with the [Anthem] demo. In the meantime, try relaunching the game and rejoining your mission to see if that helps you,” EA Help wrote.
BioWare GM Casey Hudson has clarified that servers aren’t actually full, tweeting “Turns out to not be a server capacity issue. Seems to be a different issue that didn’t come up in previous scale testing.” Hudson has confirmed that work is being done to address the issue.
On top of all of this, Origin has temporarily gone down for some players–including for a few of us here at GameSpot–although the connection seems to be slowly coming back. It’s possible EA’s servers are experiencing a larger influx of players trying to get into the VIP demo than the company originally planned for. Despite this weekend’s demo being marketed as an exclusive experience for only those who pre-order Anthem or subscribe to EA or Origin Access, every person who unlocked the demo received friend codes they could use to invite three additional people to also participate.
Whatever the issue, the problem has seemingly extended to other games as well. EA has confirmed FIFA is “experiencing connectivity issues across all platforms” and we’ve seen examples of this on the Xbox One version of Battlefield V too. According to another EA tweet, there’s widespread “login issues” across all of the company’s games and services at the moment.
Regardless, the VIP demo continues until Sunday, January 27 at 6PM PT / 9PM ET, which is January 28 at 2AM in the UK. If you do manage to get into the VIP demo, you’ll unlock a cool-looking, exclusive vinyl that you can apply to your Javelins in the main game. If you can’t manage to make it into this demo, there is another one scheduled for next weekend that will begin on February 1 at 9AM PT / 12PM ET / 5PM UK. This second demo is open to everyone, but playing it won’t unlock anything special for the main game.
We had the chance to play Anthem prior to the VIP demo, if you’re curious as to how the game actually plays.
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Anthem releases on February 22 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. You can play a week early on Xbox One or PC if you’re an EA or Origin Access subscriber.
The first major WWE event of the year is coming to the WWE Network and PPV on Sunday, January 27. The Royal Rumble will be held at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, and the events will begin at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT, with a Kickoff Show starting two hours prior. It’s going to be a jam-packed evening, with two Royal Rumble matches happening at the show.
To be eliminated from the annual WWE Royal Rumble, a wrestler must meet the following conditions: he must exit the ring over the top rope, and have both feet touch the outside floor. The wrestler must then leave ringside immediately.
But where most wrestlers see an entrenched rule to obey, other wrestlers see a loophole to exploit; it’s a classic example of “letter of the law” vs. “spirit of the law.” Does hopping around the ring on one foot, for example, save one from elimination? These sorts of creative strategies have led to some of the Rumble’s funniest, most memorable moments. And in many cases, the wrestlers must engage in heroic athleticism to make them possible.
Here 10 creative ways that WWE wrestlers have stayed in the Royal Rumble. If you liked this gallery, check out our predictions for this year’s Royal Rumble, and every confirmed entrant for the men’s and women’s Rumble. The latest WWE PPV is set to air live on Sunday, January 27, 2019. And check in with us on Sunday; we’ll be watching and reviewing the PPV live.
The Monday Night Wars between 1995 and 2001 were a fascinating time for the World Wrestling Federation and professional wrestling in general. For the first time, there was someone else stepping up to challenge the then-WWF on a global scale in WCW, which was victorious in the ratings for over a year.
During that time, though, the WWF launched what it called the “Attitude Era” at the 1997 installment of Survivor Series. It was that show that was the sight of the infamous “Montreal screwjob” that saw Shawn Michaels defeat a departing Bret Hart in the main event. Then, on the December 17 episode of Raw, Vince McMahon made the dawn of the Attitude Era official, for better or worse.
“We here at the WWF think that you, the audience, are, quite frankly, tired of having your intelligence insulted,” he said during a pre-taped segment. “We also think that you’re tired of the same old simplistic theory of good guys versus bad guys. Surely the era of the superhero who urge you to say your prayers and take your vitamins is definitely, passe. Therefore, we’ve embarked on a far more innovative and contemporary creative campaign, that is far more invigorating and extemporaneous than ever before.”
While he was throwing around words like “invigorating” and “extemporaneous” to sound professional, the message was clear: attitude, whatever that means, was here to stay. With it came breakout superstars like “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Rock, D-Generation X, Mankind, and so much more. These characters and WWE’s creative direction certainly helped the company rebound in the fight against WCW, but reexamining it, it’s hard to have fond memories about the Attitude Era. Why? Well, because it was mostly awful, especially compared to today’s professional wrestling standards.
It’s easy to look back at the period between 1997 and 2002 as the best in the company’s history. It was certainly the most popular, in terms of mainstream acceptance of professional wrestling. In hindsight, though, it’s a bit surprising to me what this was the era that helped WWE come out of a downward spiral and reestablish their dominance. After all, someone thought the character Beaver Cleavage–a lewd character based on the TV show Leave it to Beaver that also lusted after his mother–was a good idea. This was before Beaver was rechristened Meat, by the way, in an equally-stupid attempt to get the former Headbanger Mosh over.
In truth, that’s the Attitude Era in a nutshell. For every D-Generation X invasion of WCW Nitro, there were a few horrible moments, like Yamaguchi-san screaming “I choppy choppy your pee pee” before taking a swing at Val Venis with a sword. Those are the types of things nobody ever wants or needs to see. In the Attitude Era, though, they were a fairly common occurrence. From Mae Young giving birth to a hand to the Big Boss Man being hanged by the neck inside the Hell in a Cell cage, the WWF’s goal to be “edgy” and, in Vince McMahon’s own words, “innovative,” instead led to crass and cringe-worthy moments that are a pox on the company’s high-profile era of the late ’90s.
In 2019, when women have their own Royal Rumble and it seems incredible possible the Raw Women’s Championship match will headline Wrestlemania 35, looking back on the Attitude Era is tough. While it slowly got better thanks to the likes of Trish Stratus, Lita, Molly Holly, and their peers, so much of the Attitude Era’s treatment of female superstars is embarrassing. It’s the epitome of programming for a hormonal teenage boy and it has not aged well at all.
It wasn’t just the women’s division and mid-card talent–raise a hand if you remember Naked Mideon–that were the victim of being driven by such absurd content on Raw and Smackdown, though. The garbage regularly infected the main event. Yes, the Attitude Era gave us memorable moments like Steve Austin’s beer bath and the debut of Chris Jericho. However, it also assaulted audiences with the likes of D-Generation X wearing blackface to imitate the Nation of Domination and, perhaps the worst angle of all time: The Katie Vick story.
Oh, you don’t remember Katie Vick? The year was 2002, the tail-end of the Attitude Era as Kane and Triple H feuding for no apparent reason. Triple H told the world he knew Kane’s “secret,” which was that Kane murdered his old girlfriend, Katie Vick. Kane admitted that Katie was killed in a car accident while Kane was driving drunk. He swerved to miss a deer in the rain, and suddenly his definitely fictional girlfriend was dead because the masked half-brother of the Undertaker, whose father was a supernatural mortician because that all makes sense in wrestling.
As if this entire thing wasn’t in enough poor taste, the storyline continued when Triple H dressed up as Kane in a pre-taped segment and went to “Katie Vick’s funeral,” at which point he “had sex” with a mannequin in a casket. This aired on primetime TV in 2002 and was, by far, the lowest WWE ever sunk to tell one if its bizarre stories. Kane, the drunk driving hero of our story, reacted in the only way he could. He had his own pre-taped segment in which someone wore a Triple H mask while getting rectal surgery. I’m not making any of this up.
This entire fiasco somehow lasted a month and is the absolute worst angle in WWE history. And it sums up the Attitude Era well. Two incredibly gifted performers like Triple H and Kane were saddled with what was a truly disgusting story to tell. Thankfully, both men would go onto bigger and better, but the Katie Vick story is a massive stain on their careers and one that longtime fans will never forget.
That’s the problem with the Attitude Era. It’s hard to forget the worst aspects of it. The thing about wrestling fans, though, is the rose-colored glasses are strong. So many look back on that period of time in the WWE as cutting-edge and revolutionary. I defy those same fans to jump on the WWE Network and sit through a few weeks of Raw from 1998. While there are moments that are thrilling, they’re all bogged down by convoluted storylines, 90-second matches, and likes of “Marvelous” Marc Mero and the “Real Man’s Man” Steven Regal. Though, if I’m being honest, The Oddities’ theme song remains a total jam.
Listen, the Attitude Era was a product of a different time and while ’90s “extreme” culture may excuse some of it, it doesn’t do any good to look back on it as professional wrestling or sports entertainment at its peak. I, for one, would much rather have insanely competitive matches between the likes of Daniel Bryan, AJ Styles, Finn Balor, and whatever member of The Shield is being pushed at the moment, as opposed to a Kennel from Hell match. I’d rather watch Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch tear down the house, than see them rolling around in an inflatable swimming pool filled with mud.
Today’s wrestling product, not just in WWE but in companies like Ring of Honor and the newly-announced All Elite Wrestling, flies high above what fans were given on a weekly basis during the Attitude Era. And while certain aspects of modern pro wrestling has clearly looked to that period of time for inspiration–What’s the Bullet Club without a Too Sweet and aMonday Night Raw “invasion”?–the athleticism and talent on display every single night on any given wrestling show from any major company is hard to compete with. Even Impact Wrestling is putting on entertaining shows with wildly talented rosters, if you can figure out what the hell the Pursuit Channel is.
To put it simply, I’d rather watch just about any era of WWE than live through the Attitude Era again. Except for The Brood’s entrance. Who do I have to talk to about getting that whole ring-of-fire elevator thing back on TV?
